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Shelby Marier Nov 2011
It's kind of funny
I never realized I had something that used to be yours
Until it was almost time to give it away

You have something of mine too

I guess it's not really a fair trade
--a textbook for a heart--
But i cherished that book as I'm sure you would my heart
If you even knew you had it
Shelby Marier Nov 2011
I thought I understood what love was
and in that false understanding
I chose not to believe

I was too young and foolish to fully grasp
the breathtaking, heart-racing way
love grips every piece of you

and though you are spinning,
tumbling and plunging down
if feels like blissful floating
with surreal, giddy disbelief
accompanied by an unyielding hope

I guess that's the scary thing about falling:
Sooner or later the falling stops
and with no warning, you land
Shelby Marier Nov 2011
My weak mind is clouded with frustration
You know that I have not yet been betrayed
My heart races with anticipation

I constantly hide my desperation
Did you think my existence would just fade?
My weak mind is clouded with frustration

You must understand your limitation:
You'll never be completely unafraid
My heart races with anticipation

I'm tired of your manipulation
I've become someone you cannot persuade
My weak mind is clouded with frustration

I can't understand your hesitation
The feelings I have for you have not swayed
My heart races with anticipation

Before I'm left here in isolation
You must save me from the shadows and the shade
My weak mind is clouded with frustration
My heart races with anticipation
Shelby Marier Nov 2011
I want to cling to these feelings
I want to destroy these feelings
I don't understand myself

Oblivious to everyone and everything else
I wait for you
"I need you."
I can't say that

The feelings that threaten to escape
I lock them in my heart
In the unreachable place inside

My heart trembles, unable to say goodbye
I'll wait for you forever
Can you see me yet?
Shelby Marier Nov 2011
Youth is a bit cruel, isn’t it?
A sparkling future is calling me.
I want to be selfish,
but I can’t even chase you too far.

I’m waiting for a chance, quietly waiting for a chance
I’ll wait forever,
but it can’t end like this, can it?
I love you so much but time won't stop.
I want to grow old with you like this.

Kindness is cruel, isn’t it?
It throws my heart into confusion
I’ve fallen in love.
You probably haven’t noticed, have you?
I thought for sure that it would pass in the blink of an eye.

I probably know you better than I did before,
but I want to know you more.
I hope I can call you my friend.
I've decided I'll accept your past and everything.

I can’t go on like this. Well, can I?
I’m doing nothing but creating fantasies.
I need you, I've realized.
There's no way I can go back to the past.

I can’t move on
so I want to have faith that miracles exist.
Even the truth contradicts itself.
I’d rather believe in groundless dreams
than try to figure out the truth

"Which way to tomorrow?"
After you, there is no sense to it anyway.

— The End —